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testing. Good evening. Good evening everyone. Today is June the 9th, 2026. We're going to open our uh board meeting up, our board committee meeting up as a whole. Uh may we please stand for the

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flag salute and a moment of silence. This is to advise those present at this June 9th, 2026 committee as of a whole meeting of the board of education of the city of Pleasantville and the county of Atlantic that notice was given on June the 5th, 2026 of this committee of a

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whole as required by the provisions of chapter 231 of the laws of 1975. Notice thereof has been posted on the district's website and posted in the administration building and forwarded to the city clerk of the city of Pleasantville within the time required

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by said act. here. >> Miss Miller >> here. >> Miss Morgan >> present. >> Mr. Rodriguez, he's away on business. He text me this morning. Miss Sanchez >> present. >> Miss Waters

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>> here. >> Miss Silver >> here. >> Miss Roel >> present. We're good. >> Okay. We're going to open up this as uh committee as a whole. First we're going to hear from our attorney. Good evening everybody on the board and

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good evening to all the good people in our community. I'm announcing that the board recognizes that tonight's agenda did not go out in enough with enough time for our community to be able to

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review the agenda in the normal amount of time that we're used to. And since the board's commitment is at all times to uh make sure that we are following our own policies that we are uh in the

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sunshine uh for our community as much as possible that tonight's meeting will consist solely of the committee of the whole which will be listening to the board's discussion as committee of the whole any

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presentations that are scheduled for tonight, but the board will take no action tonight. Instead, it will reschedu the regular portion of the meeting on June the 16th at 6:30, which

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will give the board plenty of time to put the agenda um on its website to make sure that our community and interested parties are able to see the agenda with plenty of time so that when you come to the meeting of the 16th, um you'll be fully

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apprised of what's on the agenda. Thank you. Okay, first we're going to go into finance. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Uh we're going to start with finance. >> Uh you have copies, Miss White?

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Is this it? >> No, that's >> okay. Uh next, while we're waiting on this, uh we'll do our presentations. >> Food service is here. >> Did we do food services? They're here. >> And they're not on the agenda.

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>> They're not on here. >> Oh, wait a minute. How's this one? >> Testing. So, because we have a we have a committee for food service and they're here, we're just going to have them present.

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>> Okay. Just for the committee, the board agenda for Okay. I'm sorry. Uh food service. We're going to deal with food service. Uh you can come up and give us your report. >> We're doing they're going over the

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>> we're going to present contract for renewal and present the financials for April. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> No, but we're not taking action right now. >> Okay. >> Wait, could could you please speak into

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the microphone? >> Thank you. The contract was sent to Miss White. So that is um available in electronic form. I have just one copy here and um I just brought the information that I thought you have questions about. So this isn't the full

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contract. It's like the first five pages. Um I also have our financial statement from April. Uh it shows a um current bottom line uh profit of 28,000.

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Um it is uh 200 sorry the current bottom line as of April 30th um was 209,897. And I mean our our financial statement shows

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the meal counts, the reimbursements, things like that. If there were specific questions about that. >> Okay. Um I have a question. Um, in the last committee, um, before we broke off in doing this as a committee as a whole,

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I believe, um, the committee the committee was asking, um, for a breakdown every month of what we're profiting and what's being sold. >> Yes. >> And how much we're making, what's going back into the districts. Do you have

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that? >> Uh, we have that for every month. Yes. We turn it into Miss White and Jananisha. Um, I have the current one which is April's. C, >> could I see? >> Sure. >> Do you want me to? >> Yeah, you can go. Yeah. Do you have

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Maze? >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. in the future. Um, being that we're doing this as committee as a whole, can you just make like nine copies for everyone? Okay. Thanks. >> We were unure,

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>> right? >> Yeah. I was going to say normally when we have committee meetings, they give us all committee members a packet. So therefore, we still should Yeah. So, this does this break down each school or is this the grand total for

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all the schools? >> That's the total for the district. Um, you'll see on the first page, it's all of our sales. On the left hand side, it's by the month. You'll see the meal count starting with breakfast. >> Uhhuh. >> And the next section is lunch, meal counts, and sales. At the top, if you

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look to the right of that financial statement, that's our um year-to-date figures. >> Right. Is there nobody in here that can copy this? >> We do break down the meal counts by um school and we submit them for reimbursement and that uh um Chrissy

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puts in the reimbursements and then we send the edit checks over to Miss White and Miss Padano to um certify the claim. So that is broke down by school every every month. >> Okay. No, what I was saying is um I know

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you have it totaled together, but maybe if you can break it down by schools so we know what school >> did what. Okay. >> And how much they brought into each school. But by you just putting it together, >> we don't know anything. That's just a number. >> Yeah. So the only issue with that is

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when we file the reimbursements, it does come as a whole. It doesn't it's not broke down by school. The meal counts are, but not the dollar amount. >> Um you want to talk Hi Kathy Connley, assistant vice president for Neutrier. >> Hi.

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>> Hi. So the financials are made to be as a whole instead of by individual school district. So even the income and the expenses are as a whole. So we don't know when we buy from US food say that

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$500 is going to one school, 600's going to another. It just all goes into one pot. But my thing is what I'm asking, and I don't mean to sound redundant, but if we have six schools and they're selling

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stuff for us to make profit off of, and you're getting the money, you should have some type of track record of what the school is selling and how much they're selling. It could be damaged stuff. It could be stuff brought back. It could be waste. It could be not sold. So, we just want to know what account is

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given by each school. And I understand that's the way they do it to you, but I figured that would be the way. >> So, are you looking for I mean, we could definitely give you the meal counts and the alle cart sales by >> how everybody else feels about it. >> I agree. >> Well, I because I director of food and

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beverage of five buildings. >> So, everything comes under one because it's still one one pot, one account, one business. Whether it's five buildings, it's still one pot. So the way they doing it is the normal way you would do it in food and beverage,

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>> right? But she's asking is if they can break it down. We understand that part. We accept that part. But if we're asking if it can be done because um what if one school has a shortage somewhere or something, you know? >> So let me ask this question. Does it So

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say for instance, South Maine, North Main, >> uh what the money that comes back comes to one pot. Correct. And that's what we have in a one separate account to put back or you know do whatever we need to do it right. So what difference does it make in the separate

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>> because we want to make sure everything is accounted for correctly. >> You don't have inventory. >> Do you have inventory on it? >> We have inventory broken down by school monthly. >> Okay. >> Okay. So that'll work. That'll work. That that'll work right there. >> That'll work. >> Are we losing from them?

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>> Are we losing from them? >> No. Oh, >> we're gaining profits. >> We're actually making $27,000 more this year than we were making previous year in April. >> Okay. >> Can you repeat that number for me? >> $27,000 and a little bit more. I don't have the exact number.

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>> 8.97 up. >> Thank you. U meal counts are up um for breakfast across the board. They're down a little bit for lunch, but that's because of the enrollment that's down. >> Okay. Okay.

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>> And alle cart sales are increased also. >> And we can give you sales by free, reduced, paid. Well, doesn't really matter. We can give that to you on a monthly basis per school. That comes right out of the register system. >> Um, and it also has the allart sales,

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which is all the extra snacks that they buy per building. >> Okay. >> So, if you would like that moving forward, we're Chrissy will definitely make sure to add that to you. >> I just have one question. >> That sounds good. >> Okay. Mhm. >> Do we have like a halo or kosher option? >> Supposed to. >> Okay.

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>> Yeah. >> I have a question. >> Yes. >> Um, you probably do, but um just wanted to know do do you like survey the children to see what they like and Yeah, >> twice a year. >> Okay. >> Twice a year.

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>> And also, how did the um event that we're doing with the pizza thing, how's that working out? >> Hold on. That's Denise. >> Okay. That's Chrissy. So yeah, Chrissy signed on. >> Chrissy got a new pizza vendor, a local pizza um vendor. And how many weeks have

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you been doing? >> We just started. >> Yes, we did three Fridays in May. Broke it down two schools. Got pizza delivered on Friday. And then we did just this past Friday we did three schools. We did high school, middle school, and Leeds

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Avenue. And this Friday is South Maine, Washington, and North Maine. And the kids are loving it. Even the teachers have bought some pizza. So, the sales definitely went up with the They love the Jojo's pizza. >> Okay, great. And the and yes, and uh the

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gentleman has worked well with us. We've had all the pizza way before the time even the lunch period even started. >> So, it's been great. >> Any questions? >> Thank you. >> Question. >> No, you asked you asked what I was going. Well, just can I ask um

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>> I just want to ask um a question to us? So, if I'm getting this right, we pay them to vendor the food. And once they vendor the food, this surplus of positive money, where does that what do they keep that or

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>> with the money that we're all >> talking to Mike? We all got time. Okay. See, it's a feedback. So, The 207 Now mine's not working.

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The $27,000 that's on the bottom line is all profit to Pleasantville School District. It already includes the management fee that's going back to Neutrierve. >> Oh, okay. That's really good. Yeah, it is. >> Good job. Good job.

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>> Yeah, because >> that' be nice. Is Is there a steady rotation in place in regards to which school gets pizza and when? >> Yes. >> Okay. And will it continue to be with the same vendor that you use, Jojo? >> Yes.

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>> Okay. >> And we'll start that back up um in the first week of October. So, it'll go every other every Friday. Uh it goes two schools get it on Friday, two schools, two schools, and then we we'll just keep continuing until like some of the weeks

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it'll be three schools a Friday depending on if we're off or like over the Easter break, the winter break. >> Now, they're also going to add Chick-fil-A next year as well. >> Yes. >> So, going to be pizza and that's good. Okay. >> Should go up more.

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>> Do you guys have like a paper or a schedule on which schools get what? um for that rotation >> for the pizza just started. >> No problem. >> Yes, I will have a schedule come um October all the way through. Yes.

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>> Thank you. >> That'll be put on the menu. >> Yes. bring quotes next time for Yeah, absolutely. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Thank you so much. Great job. >> Thank you. >> Um, can I just explain a little bit

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about the contract? >> Yes. >> So, Neutras only receives a a flat fee regardless of the amount of money that like we can sell alart and the and the amount of money we get back from reimbursements that all goes back to the food service program for Pleasantville School District. Neutraser only collects

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that flat fee. So, like Kathy said, that 207,000 on the bottom line, we don't know yet where we'll end up for the year, but you're definitely going to end up better than last year, and that's all Pleasantville's money. >> Thank you. I liked it. >> Thank you. I want to say that, excuse

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me. I just want to say y'all doing a great job, especially um with the money that's coming back to the district and as well as doing the pizza. So, I just want to commend y'all for doing a good job because we met before and our food

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service was terrible >> but y'all are doing very good and I have to say that cuz you know I stood all the way down when I was the you know >> Thank you, Mrs. W. We appreciate that. >> So, thank y'all. >> Thank you. >> All right. >> I need someone to fix this feedback.

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>> Mr. Dolby or someone. We need to fix this feedback. Mr. Mr. Rebecca, can you fix this feedback because we can't talk into the microphone? >> Hello. >> He's controlling up there. >> One, two. There we go. There we go. No,

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a little bit more. >> Okay. So, we're going to move into finance. >> Can we do transportation? >> What's that? >> What's that in your packet? I didn't get a survey. You >> No, it's in the

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>> Oh, okay. Yeah, we can move through the agenda. Uh, can somebody Yes. >> Is that a survey? >> We can move through the survey. >> Was there another >> presentation? What's it? What is it? >> Oh, for us, not the Oh.

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>> Oh, okay. That's cool. >> Yeah. So, we're good. >> Okay. So, we're going to go to what? Transportation first. >> Yes. Transportation. >> We're going to do transportation. >> Transportation.

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Diane Davidson, transportation. >> Hi. >> Thank you for inviting me. >> Oh, you're welcome. >> So, if you look at your packet, you will see that Miss Davidson and the transportation department conducted their required um drills, emergency

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drills for the bus. Is there anything you would like to say about that, Miss Davidson? Um, the drivers did very well and the students, uh, they were fun. Some of them like to jump instead of slide, but

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it was okay. We got through it. >> I'm taller. >> Excuse me. Can you When you say they like to jump instead of slide, what are we talking >> out the back door? The second uh, evacuation was out the back door. And, you know, kids are kids.

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So they're supposed to they're supposed to slide. >> Yeah. They sit down and then they kind of jump down because if they jump a lot of times they grab the doors >> and the hinges start to give, especially like you're talking high school kids and then you're replacing back doors. We

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didn't have to do any of that. So it worked out very well. >> How often is that done with the children? >> Twice a year. And they're very valuable evacuation drills. I I've seen them in action >> twice a year. You mean what? What time

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frame? Twice a year. >> Twice a year. Um this year Dale asked me to do it um early on. We did the first one in October and when the weather started breaking in May, that's when we did the second one. It doesn't matter when you do it. It's really up to every district

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>> to do it. Okay. >> Okay. Can you tell us more about what's going on in transportation? >> Uh what would you like to know? and whatever you want to let us know. >> Well, currently we're working on um getting the county

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um paperwork together for our certification and we're getting together right now the summer routes. So, um yeah, we had we had a busy year, a lot of trips. This district does more trips than any other district I've been

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in. Well, because our kids are disadvantaged, if they don't get the exposure sometime from homes that can afford it, so that's why we have a lot of trips for our children. >> Well, well, the kids enjoy it. They >> I hope they do. They should. I'm glad that we can afford to do that for our children.

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>> Yeah, because I check on the cameras to make sure, you know, things are being done properly and they do. They have a good time, >> especially that zoo in Cape May. >> How are we doing with our bus routes? How give us a breakdown how the bus routes been going all year? because we

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did get a lot of complaints about the bus routes. >> Bus routes were very rough in the beginning because we had uh problems with the bus ride program, >> but um we've been working with them and I think it's it better be a better

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opening this year because it took a while for us to really massage those routes down where they were running smooth. >> So, how are we going with that for the oncoming school year? >> Well, we have the routes already developed. So what we do is we um just

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import the names of the new students and we massage those routes before we even put them out. So they're already developed. My next question is I know before they were saying someone had put something together where the parents would get alert to let them know when

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the buses were coming or if the buses are running late. Has that been implemented this year? >> No, it hasn't and I wasn't aware of that. >> Okay. Is this something that can look into or maybe speak to? >> We can we can do an alert with uh busrite. Um it has proven not to be

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reliable with everybody because a lot of times when we're inputting the students names and their addresses um there's they give they either leave out their email address and it's possible some people don't have the

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computer to do that. So, um, it does go to their phones and a lot of times people are changing phone numbers and we're kind of like the last ones that get it. And I I find out a lot of phone numbers when kids are not, you know,

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parents aren't home and we have to call around to try and figure out where the parent is. So, yeah, changing phone numbers is a problem with that system. So maybe moving forward, I'm sorry. Maybe moving forward for this oncoming school year when you send out where they

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have their um IDs or whatever bus, whatever bus they supposed to get on, you could send something to the parents to let them know um if they change their number to contact you. So therefore, they can be in, you know, >> in the know of when the buses are coming

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or when it's not coming, if it's delayed. So maybe you can send out something to the parents to let them know that they will be affected if they don't update their phone number. So that way that won't be excuse me an excuse of not doing the program.

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>> Right. I have a question. >> Can I say something? Let me ask a question real quick because I know on the app if everybody's using the the app, >> right? >> It does tell you if the bus is delayed or all that, but the problem is that I know we had before is that some of the

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drivers didn't always turn on whatever they had to turn on to make sure the app >> because you can track and see where your child's at or on the bus. Well, I have been on their cases about keeping those on and they have been because they know I sit in the office until the last bus

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comes in. >> So, if they're coming in after, that means they haven't had it on and I will catch them. So, but they've been they're good bus drivers. They're really um good to work with and they've really been very good about turning it on. Part of

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the problem with that um bus right program, it has a delay. So what's happening is it's showing the bus is coming when the bus has already been there and it's like um sometimes it could be two minutes >> and so the parents are waiting for the

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last minute to put the kids out and then they the kids are missing the bus. >> So that's a little bit of a problem and they are working on that but I don't know how much they can uh improve that because it's all internetbased satellite. As long as it's being done

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correctly on our end, then we shouldn't really have too many problems. >> Got a question. So, just wondering, just to be proactive, is there any way you can just send out an alert and maybe if the buses are running late, you can just put them on the website, >> like make a make add a column to our

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website and it says bus delays or whatever the case may be and it'll flash up there. >> I was going to say the bus company, but I was just looking. And I'm glad we're having this conversation cuz bus right is up for renewal. And if this is an issue with their connectivity and

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ability to um have the parents access this information, then we might need to look at that um application or contract with them. They're asking for a $37,000 $37,800 contract. And if we're having issues and

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the parents are not able to access it for other reasons than not giving their information correctly, then we need to kind of look at that. >> I agree. >> Right. All all the programs are having the same problem. Anybody who's offering it, not all the programs are offering that. Now, I think

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that was part of the reason Busright was picked because they were offering that. >> Still something to look into. >> Offering the ability to track your child, right? >> Yeah. >> So, is there also an issue? I was told because the bus drivers have to have the connectivity while they're driving on

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their tablets and it's the connectivity is they're losing the the connection be but they're responsible for making sure that the connection is strong. >> Well, we haven't really um had a complaint about that. The only time you really can't track it is when it goes

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out of county. Uh but we've been actually able to track them when they're in uh Atlantic City or uh Abekin. Yeah, it really hasn't been a problem that I've gotten a complaint on. >> So, the issue you're saying is that when

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the why the what's the connectivity with the parent being able to have the information other than because there's parents that have the same numbers that cannot connect with the service to see where their child is at, especially when they're running late or a delay is happening. >> Correct. Well, we we do have problems

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every once in a while and they they call down there and usually it's the student has been changed on the bus or it's something like that. They're really looking at the wrong bus. That's typically what it's been. >> Well, no one's answering the phone. >> Well, there's only two of us down there. We're always answering the phones. We

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can't >> Can't agree with that. I can't agree with that. >> So, we're we're looking at So, we're looking at making sure this is the best company or the dedication for our district. >> Yeah. I mean, I've never had bus right

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before. I've had many other I've worked with many other programs. This program's um it's pretty good. It's a new company, so they are making changes as the complaints are coming in. U because I Dale wrote them a few letters. Um we had

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a lot of problems with them in the beginning of the year. That's why it was such a rough opening. >> Oh, Miss White, she Miss White. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. your she gave it to him. >> Okay. >> It ain't never come to us. >> Question. Can't we just >> can't we just have them come and we

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discuss it straight with them >> instead of assuming they want to put in >> we'll just I'll reach out to bus right and see if we can get them in. How long you been with the district um and that in our transportation department that you know

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you're just getting >> I think that'll be best >> new with the right bus right program. How long you been? >> I use bus here since March. I'm fine. You're fine. >> I'm sorry. I am here since March. >> Oh, okay. So, you're brand new to >> It lags internet. >> 26 years in transportation.

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>> No, I'm talking about with us since you said that this is your first time with bus right program. Busright is a new um it's a new company and it is the first time I've ever worked with it. I saw it at a demonstration one other time um when it was first starting and I wasn't

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impressed with it. But by the time I came here and looked at it in Pleasantville, it had gotten much better and it they have added a lot of good features to it since. So it is a young upcoming company. Maybe it needs some me maybe department

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needs some training on with them. Maybe they need some training because this sounds to me that it's a disconnect somewhere. So maybe might be like a little training from our transportation department, whoever's the head with their company so therefore they can get on the same page and discuss what's

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going wrong so therefore it can be corrected. I >> I have a question. >> Shar, you go first. Training. Go ahead. You go first. Um, I want to first say that I have a child in the district and I have a child that goes out of district but still in district and I want to say that I use bus right for him. It is a

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lag in it, but I do know where he's at and when he got home and >> internetwise. So, I want to say that, you know, because I'm speaking parent, I left board member for one second. And I get it that it might not be right, but if you have other other programs that

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you work with, I suggest, you know, give them to Dale so we can look at them so that we're not here. If you know someone to work better so we're not just with a company then you know because you know you you work the department. >> We don't we don't do it >> it's I wouldn't say I'm totally loving

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the program but I'm not hating it either >> because it does it does have that feature where the parents can look it up and um a lot of the parents like it. I mean overall the complaints are a lot less than the people who like >> and you definitely have to call the the year of and get that change because I

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was keeping my son on that route that you're talking about >> and then when he changed the different driver Yeah. >> If you don't stop if you don't go back in the app and change it you'll be following >> I thought my son was going to a lang city. I was like what he >> right on the bus. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. You're right.

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>> So every year you have to change it. You're right. >> So that must be some information that need to go out to the parents as well. First, I want to say thank you. I appreciate all that you do. I understand it's only two people in the department. It's a humongous department. Transportation is big. Um so I I

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appreciate everything that you do for the district. >> Thank you. >> Um let me ask you this. Do do you feel as though you need someone else in that department? Like you guys need some help? >> Oh, absolutely. >> Okay. >> Um there's no doubt about it because we're um low on drivers.

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>> Okay. Um, a lot of the aids are have problems and don't come in and um, so you're talking about not answering the phone when when Carrie and I are in the office, which you know, sometimes it's just me, sometimes it's just her, but

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we're we're riding the buses to um, you know, keep everything legal and we don't want any problems with being out of compliance. So a lot of times, you know, we have had to lock the office up and um just jump on buses. >> So let me ask you >> dispatch from the bus.

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>> A question. So you are you guys supplied with cell phones if you had to leave the office? >> Yeah, we have cell phones. >> No, like a district phone. Would it make it better if you had like a district phone to take with you if you had to step in and be an aid? >> Yes, we do take them with us. >> Okay. >> Yeah. And you know, we have the radios

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for the drivers. So Okay. and um Tracy in the business office because we were so uh tight on help this year. I mean, we were out on the buses almost every day and um Tracy takes the phone calls and then she'll call me on my cell phone and then we'll radio the driver from the

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bus. So, that's what's been going on. When y'all have to leave out and drop ride the bus, do y'all let someone in the business office know that y'all leaving out the office? So therefore, maybe the phone calls can >> Well, we try to, but honestly, when we're jumping on the bus, it's long

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before the school even opens. >> So, even with that being said, once you're out there on the road, is anyone contacting the business office or superintendent to let them know that you're not in the office, that you're on the rope? Yeah, I'll let Dale know and

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I'll >> So, she's aware every time that the office is closed and y'all out. >> Not every time, but um sometimes it just happens so fast. You're already, you know, it's already 9:00 and then you're like, I I didn't call the office. So, it

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does happen. We try I try to let the business office know what's going on and it's been much better since the calls get bumped up to the business office and then this way Tracy can let me know when parents are calling in. >> Okay. Well, any event when y'all have to leave out the um office,

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>> even if you forget at 9:00, if you remember at 10:00, >> it would be nice to, you know, reach out. So therefore, when the parents call to say no one's answering the phone, they won't have to say hold on and try to call that department to find out why no one's there answer the phone and then

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agree with if everybody else say they never answer the phone. So, I'm speaking from me calling myself and couldn't get through and had to go through all extensions and was put on hold to try to find out who's in the department and couldn't find no one. So, my question is

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when y'all have to leave out, can y'all let someone know in the business office so therefore if another phone call comes through, they can let the parent be aware of what's going on and not that someone's just not doing anything. >> Right. We can do that.

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>> Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? >> No. >> I do want to clarify when Miss Davidson is saying jump on the bus, that means she's driving the bus. So, not only she's running the department, but she's driving the bus and driving the students. I just want to make that clear because sometimes you say jump on the bus, they think you're just going for a

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ride to check the routes out with the bus driver. But I just want to make clear for the public as well. >> This district has um like a lot of idiosyncrasies to it as far as where the buses can get down. So we have had to go out and Carrie is wonderful because she

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knows all these streets. So a lot of times we just have to go look at it and evaluate it. So sometimes we are out doing that but generally speaking when nobody's in the office it's because we're all on buses. >> Okay. So y'all doing >> the bus. >> Okay. So she's doing both. >> Driving the bus.

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>> No, she said they doing both. >> But a lot of times she's driving the bus. That's why I want to make sure it's clear for the public. >> Yeah. But she's doing both. Let's keep it 100. Either way, she keep she's working. You know, she's doing both. But we appreciate that you are versatile to do

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that. So, I do thank you personally. >> I'm dedicated to making it better. >> Thank you so much. I appreciate you. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> No more questions. >> No. >> Dale, can I go home? >> Miss White, we don't do first names on. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Miss

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Davidson. Have a good night. You survived, Miss Davidson. >> Next, we have facilities. Anything for facilities? >> Okay, that's >> okay. >> Mr. Broer, >> can you guys hear me? Okay. >> Yes. >> You facilities?

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>> Uh, so I'm I'm not the facilities director. I don't work directly with the district. I'm the district's engineer. >> The engineer. >> Yeah. So, my name is Ryan McGowan. I'm with the Remington and Vernick. We don't handle all of the district's projects. Um, but when you have something that you need plans for or you need permits for or stuff like that, uh, that's that's

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typically when we get involved to to help out. So, there's some projects that I have. I don't know if there's anyone else here to speak to facilities or not. >> Should be, >> but but Miss White asked me to come tonight to give you an update on the projects that we're working on. >> It's in your packet, too. You should have it on the packet

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>> that says here speaking of the project. >> This the project. Yes. >> So, is the facility director here to speak about facilities? Is the facilities director here? >> No. >> Okay. >> No. >> No. >> Oh, wow.

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>> Okay. Okay. So, are we ready? >> Yes. So, there there are three active projects and another project that um is sort of still in the conceptual phase that we've provided some plans for. So, I'll go through the three active ones first. Uh one is uh an HVAC unit

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selection project. Uh initially we gave the district a design proposal uh to redesign uh the HBAC units in in this room in the cafeteria for the high school in the middle school gym and cafeteria. Um so we right now are

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working on just the unit selection so the district can commit funds to uh purchasing units uh through a co-op by June 30th. So we're making progress on that. We're hoping to have something for the next what will be the June 23rd meeting I believe. Uh the aisle containment project is another active

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project. Uh the district bid uh for equipment for their essentially a network equipment. Um and the equipment was delivered last summer but not all the provisions for the installation were in place. Um so we had to complete an electrical design. Uh that was done originally uh to solicit quotes.

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Unfortunately the state law changed while we were going through that process. Um, so now we had to circle back and and prepare a bid package to bid out the electrical installation. Uh, so that's actually out to bid right now. We should be able to award that again at the June 23rd meeting and then that work

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uh the installation of all that equipment can progress uh this summer. We've been working with your IT department, your facilities group uh to try to coordinate that that whole project. Um the last active one is Leeds Avenue. Uh you guys authorized us to move forward with the demolition of 16 West Leadeds Avenue and then the

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construction of a parking lot on that site. Uh at your next board meeting, you'll have uh a resolution that needs to get submitted to the Department of Education to approve uh the project application. Typically, we move forward with our projects sort of um in

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conjunction with that. And just as we're going through that DOE process, uh we found for building demolitions, we usually want to get the approval first because we can't undemolish the building once it's demolished. if they decide not to approve it for whatever reason. So, um, we typically recommend holding off for that. For for that reason, I haven't

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been able to give Dale a schedule as to when we'll be able to move forward with construction because I, you know, I don't want to dictate what the the DOE process will be for approval. That could be anywhere from 30 to 90 or 120 days sometime. So, we're going to move forward through that as quickly as we can. Uh, we're going to progress forward with the parking lot design and as soon

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as we have all our approvals, we'll move forward with the demolition. Soon as that's completed, we'll move forward with the parking lot construction. Uh the good part is it's uh separated from the rest of the school site. It's not actively used now by any of the students or anything. Uh so we feel you should be able to move forward with construction during the school year. Uh we can

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provide additional fencing and sort of separate that area off from students and and work and progress uh even with schools open. Uh and just for everyone's knowledge, that'll be a 25 approximately 25 space uh parking lot. So we'll we'll squeeze as much as we can out of it. based on a concept plan and a threshold.

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Once we exceed 25 spaces, you need another ADA space which takes up a bunch bunch more space. So, it makes it hard to really get past that that 25 threshold. Um, the last project is a project that we've we've sort of circulated a couple plans. Um, I

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provided a concept I think in March uh for updated security entrance at this facility, the middle school high school site. Um, it requires some coordination with the city because Mill Road technically extends all the way along. Um, and that's really an entrance that you guys

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need to be able to control in order to effectively have control of site access. Uh, we talked about uh potentially leaving Mil Road alone and doing gates uh at the other end back by the facilities building and that back entrance. Uh, but it's it's not really conducive to having a security booth and someone being able to see and regulate

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traffic in and out of the site without controlling traffic from Mil Road. So, our concept incorporated gates there, a security booth out front, and gates into the rest of the site. Uh, but that will require some coordination and some permission from the city to to install a gate across what's otherwise a public

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street. Um, so we we again we have a concept plan. I'm happy to to share that again. Uh, but you know, we would recommend moving forward in in coordination with the city first. Once we can flush out a concept with them, we're happy to give you a design proposal to to move forward and, you know, move forward advance the project.

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>> Okay. So that's that's all I have at the moment. Uh I know there are other uh projects in the district, but that that's all that we're authorized on and working on at the moment. >> Sounds good. Anyone have questions? >> No. >> No questions. Thank you. Great report. >> Great. Thank you. Thank you for the time.

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>> Next facilities. >> I do have Mr. Overton here who's our custodial manager and I know Mr. James is on his way so that everyone can meet him. Um, but we also I think I see them coming in. >> Can we just repeat again about the

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meeting since >> Mr. Overton, do you mind coming up just for a moment, please, and let them know all the wonderful things you're doing to problem solve some of the things that's going on in the district? >> Uh, one second. We need to make an announcement. Um, it's about 10 of six.

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Can you make the announcement to the public? >> Say what I said before. >> Yes, please. Thank you. >> Sure. >> Um, just a reminder uh to members of the public who might have just either come here or are just watching.

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>> Yes. Yeah. >> Just watching. >> Um, the agenda for tonight's meeting did not go out in time for the public to have a good amount of time to digest it. Normally our our policy is a 48 hours

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and it did not go out 48 hours before tonight. As a result, what you are seeing tonight is the committee of the whole including presentations. No action however will be taken tonight.

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Instead, the regular meeting that was originally scheduled for tonight will roll over till next Tuesday, June the 16th at 6:30. Um, and prior to that, the the full agenda will go out with plenty

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of time for everybody to be able to read it and digest it and have any questions that they may have um coming to the meeting or or not. So, just a reminder, this is the committee of the whole only

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with presentations. No action will be taken tonight after the committee of the whole will adjourn and then roll this meeting over to next Tuesday, June 16th at 6:30 for the regular meeting. Thank you.

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>> Hi, thank you. Um, what about the activities, the end of the year activities for the kids that are on this agenda that will be taking place before the 16th? >> Dr. Heyman, Natalie, >> I was going to say that I can approve it and then have it board approved at next

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Tuesday meeting. >> Thanks. And there's four kids out here that state championships. Okay, we got we got you. >> They just came in. They came in after the fact. We had approved. >> Thank you. >> Facilities. >> Mr. >> Mr. Overton.

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>> Good evening board members and sonum sisters. Um my role is the custodial manager. I have the opportunity of working with alongside with not only the custodials

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now I'm dealing with uh the uh maintenance side and I'm trying to do all I can to uh perform the duties and get everything done with dealing with the custodials and the maintenance side

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and we making great progress with that. Um, with that being said, uh, we ran into a situation with the, uh, fire alarms going off. We was able to call the proper company. Uh I can't I don't

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know the name off the top of my head, but uh we was able to call the proper company to come in and fix the alarm box which that was diffused u excuse me that was um taken care of along with uh a couple findings that the fire department

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found that I immediately took care of all the findings that they found. So, I received a call today from the fire inspector and they was very, very pleased with the outcome of I won't

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go into details what they said, but I will say that they was very thankful that I was able to diffuse everything that needed to be done for the district. And it it's to me it's just very important to uh have these kids come in

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this our facilities throughout the district and be safe, be comfortable, and have a safe environment. So my role, I just love keeping the schools clean, making sure that they're always on board

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with uh taking care of their responsibility when it come to the custodian. And now I'm dealing with the maintenance department that uh I haven't been dealing with, but with the blessings, they've been doing really well and cooperating with

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everything that I have for them to do. It's it's a they not used to me being on them like that. But that's the only way we make progress around here. And we come into the time of the season that it's graduation time, so it's a lot more

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on our plate. And I I appreciate the opportunity just to work along with maintenance as well as custodians. And uh other than that, um I know uh Jeff's not here right this moment. Uh

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I'm sure he can share some other uh topics with you, but uh I will continue to do >> Just walked in. >> He walked in. Just walked in. >> Okay. I will continue to do what I'm

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set out to do with the management team and also with the custodials and the maintenance department. Anything that's going to help the district, I'm I'm there 100%. >> Yes. >> Um you said about the fire alarm, were

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they going off like at a certain school or all school? >> No. Um the high school had a default in the um uh sprinkler system that was in actually in the back of the uh curtain.

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So we found where the location was, but unfortunately the fire departments was unable to reset the box. So that's when we had to go outsource and call the company that installed the uh system to

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uh get everything working. We was able to do complete that less than 24 hours when they told her it may take two days but we was able to have it done because I we was uh definitely in force and along with uh my spirit Jeff was

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actually we was on it tremendously. So, we was able to accomplish that. >> And just one more question, did that fall back on like the inspections that they do? Like I know where I rent like the fire the fire people come and they inspect it. Not the fire people, but the alarm system. They'll come and like

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inspect it, but they didn't catch it. That's what I'm saying. I don't know. >> Did we get >> like did we >> So, is this what you're saying? Is this a part of the fines that were issued in September? Is this part of that? >> Uh, no. This is No, that that was uh this is different uh from that. But um

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>> the quarterly inspections like that they would do like don't they come around and like rich fire protection they come around and do Yeah. Cert reertify everything every year like could >> Yes, they do. I just don't know the particular time. I don't know Jeff you can help me with that. >> They they were reertified the sprinkler system, the uh fire extinguishers. They

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have to be reertified yearly. >> I just wanted to >> Yeah, because we had pass for these fines. We had a lot of fines. Did we get a fine for this? >> No. No, not at all. I diffused the situation before it even occurred. >> Very good. Thank you. I want to um

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commend you because >> me being on social media every and when I read on Pleasantville, a lot of people are that work in the departments that you're doing are really standing up for you. They're saying how things has changed. They saying how good of a, you

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know, under your leadership. and listening to you now, I understand why they're saying that. So, I want to say thank you for doing a good job and the people that's working under you, they are putting it out there that you know they like working under your leadership. So, I want to thank you. >> I highly appreciate that and I will

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continue to do my best. >> I believe it. >> Thank you. I was going to say, Mr. Overton, stay there. Mr. James, please come over to the microphone. When I say I introduced these two gentlemen to one another and they just hit it off right away and started collaborating for the benefit of the district, it was a great

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site to see and it was very good to hear. Um this is Mr. James. Mr. James is the one that you um supported me in approving to take on the responsibility of the facilities department. Um we've we've done the air conditioner units.

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Mr. Ma Jones helped out greatly with making sure that the air conditioner units were ordered at a very like a half of the amount that we originally were told and um once Mr. James came in, we also they went straight to business. when I say to you there was a list of

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items that that were not um addressed and I'll let them tell you more about it, but I just wanted to make sure that we talked about the fire watches that were at Leeds Avenue prior to me um being on board on April 28th that was take that had taken place about two months and for a long time we were

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paying people overtime to stay at Leeds Avenue school overnight to the next morning over the weekends and Mr. Adcock was able to meet with the fire inspector as well and was we were told from the Atlantic Coast Company and the fire

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inspectors that we do not need to have people come in overnight because it was exhausting our money and our finances paying people to stay overnight and over the weekend. So, we also now had the situation where we were supposed to possibly have to have a fire watch here at the high school. And because of um

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Mr. Edcock's due diligence, Mr. James and Mr. Overton working together, we were able to save the district a lot of money moving forward. >> I just want to start right there. >> Thank y'all. >> So, this is Mr. James, everyone. >> Hello, Mr. James.

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>> Hi. >> Your turn to speak. >> Okay. What would you like to know? >> Tell us what you've been doing. >> It's only been like three days. >> Just give us a little >> a little background. Uh, I'm from New York City, born and raised. Uh, I joined

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the military right after high school. I did 23 years with the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard. Uh, after that, uh, I retired here in Atlantic City. Uh, I went to work for Greater Aar Regional High School, uh, as a head custodian. Then I moved up pretty

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quick to a facilities manager. >> Uh, did 17 years there. Then I came over to Atlantic City Board of Education and I worked there for the last three and a half years as assistant facilities manager. uh got a lot of knowledge out of both schools and um I'm I'm happy to

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be here to help you guys out. >> Thank you. We're happy. >> Thank you and we appreciate your help. >> Welcome. >> You're welcome. >> Now the kids. >> Thank you, gentlemen. >> With both of them. >> Can I have one question? >> Yes. >> I don't know how to say this. Hope I'm saying it correctly. I don't say

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everything right, but I'm working on that. Um is there anything that that you notice like majorly right now that stands out that you think we should worry about. I know it could be a list, but >> um

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I don't like to say worried, but we're on top of the the Hback system. We just had a meeting today with all the uh grounds maintenance, well, the general maintenance guys, and we spoke about that. And uh hopefully by tomorrow, Thursday, we're going to start installing the units. >> Okay.

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>> Um I got in touch with the uh the classroom units, >> the classroom units over at Leeds Avenue. That was another issue that I heard of when I first started. So, I contacted that company also. So, we're going to be on top of that as soon as possible. >> Okay. >> Um I'm just I'm waiting for a call back

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and set up a schedule. >> Okay. >> Just keep us updated. We like that. We like the feedback that y'all giving us. >> Absolutely. >> Welcome back, Mr. Overton. Glad to see you. >> Thank you. I just like to add one more thing. We um I was just informed that we received a new we have a new stage. So I

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just want every want the board to know that I have them working on that stage as we speak because I don't want to wait until graduation time. Great. And we're not on top of the stage being together. So it will be completed

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>> during the proper time that's due. >> Just make sure we got some heat in the winter time up here. because I'm freezing. >> Thank you, gentlemen. >> We really appreciate it. >> Thank you. Best news in a long time. >> Madame President and board members, if

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you don't mind, I would like to have Mr. Zach please come up with our students from the track and then they just want to present the rings to them. >> Yes. >> Yes. Never say no to the children. Maybe

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>> I knew I saw we're here. >> Maybe I hear you. >> Okay. It's cold, right? They need to give us some hand warmers. My hand is here.

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Okay. All right. Come on. >> Can I see you before? Are they the same? >> But but they they the same. Okay. >> That's beautiful. That's nice.

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It's cold. >> Oh, yeah. Beautiful. Beautiful. >> Look, Annie got that light. And they got the light on it. >> That's how we treat our students. Top

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notch. Top notch. >> Hello everyone. >> Hello. >> Hello everyone. So for everyone who doesn't know who I am, I'm Matt Zachary. I'm the athletic supervisor at Pleasible School District. Uh today, uh I wanted

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to honor our indoor state champions, uh the 4x two, which consisted of uh four of our athletes. I know one's here right now. I don't know. One had a family emergency and I don't know where the other two are right now. But at this time, can Todd Watson please come up

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stand? >> And for people who do not know, uh Todd Watson won the 4x2 in indoor track and also won the 4x4 this year in outdoor. >> All right. >> Yes.

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>> So the congratulations. >> So the kids that are part of the four uh the 4x2 is up on the screen. Raul Wiggins, Jamad Washington White, Quasim Jackson, and Todd Watson. So if you look at the presentation, uh that was a picture of them winning the

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event. And on the bottom right is a picture of the ring. Uh we just the ring is very beautiful. It just came in last week. >> Pleas. >> So just want to make sure we congratulated our indoor track team for winning the 4x2. It's extremely difficult to win states and like I said we won five state titles this year. So

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>> So come take a picture. Look at that ring. Look at that ring. Okay. >> Now that's a room. All right. Can you go to the next slide? So also

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too uh I want to acknowledge our girls flag football team. For the people who do not know our girls flag football team made it to the championship this year. We did not win the championship but we did make it to the championship. The championship was at the Eagles practice facility where we got to see Jaylen Herz, Jordan Davis and other Cooper

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Deene and all these famous football players. So if you look in the bottom left that has a picture of our girls with the Eagles players. >> Uh even like I said we were the nine seed and we beat the number one seed. We beat the number four seed. We beat the number five seed and we made it to the

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championship. We weren't we didn't go all the way but at the end of the time at the end of we made it. >> We made it there though. >> Uh if you look at the top right uh Jan Lee Reyes, she is the first girl to ever commit for flag football. Uh she got a

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division 2 scholarship to Goldie Beacon. She is also our thousand point scorer for basketball. If you look at the top left, that is Mariah Thorne. Uh she made all South Jersey in flag football and we're expecting her to get college offers very soon. And if you look at the bottom right uh that's Drexi Monroy. She

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was first team all West Jersey football league. >> So I just want to honor our girls as well. >> Desville Pride. >> And last but not least, just uh two weeks ago we had the uh outdoor uh track season. Our 4x1 won the state championship consisting of Samaj Doer,

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Raul Wiggins, Jamad Washington White, and Nazir Griffin. And our 4x4 won the championship as well, which was Sam Doer, Quasim Jackson, Brandon Williams, Ty Watson, and Marcelo. And last but not least, Isabella Alvarez. Uh she repeated as a group two champion in shot put. She

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was out for the whole year with a with a knee surgery and she came back the last week of the season and was able to win the state still. So >> proud. >> We had a very successful spring season. Thank you guys for your time. >> All right.

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>> Yes. Yes. >> Question. >> No. Sorry. We have a lot of uh pea members here specifically for the board meeting. So, what I'm wondering I'm I'm requesting is for me to be able to hold like a little mini meeting since there's so many

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people here and I'm sure there's a lot of questions that I can answer because there's people from all the schools here and I never get a chance to go around all the schools. >> What the >> So, is do you mind if we're here for like a half an hour after you guys leave? >> Oh, sure. >> Yeah. Long as you pay long as you pay

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the people that's got to stay and close up. >> Thank you. >> All right. >> We gave him pizza. They may settle for that. >> Next. Curriculum and instruction. Curriculum and instruction.

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>> Uh curriculum and instruction. Page 55 of 71. Miss Sanchez asked a question which we are working on currently. Um if we could start a program for next year where students from other districts can pay to take courses here that would help also

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fund some of the programs that we have at the high school. So we are currently working on that. It would be difficult to do it right now and to pull it off correctly but next year we are looking to do so. Okay. Also, all of our summer programs, our ESY, as you can see on the board agenda,

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is um fully staffed. Um Dr. Bush did very well. She helped out so much with this um project since we do not have anyone in that department currently. Um so, I want to give kudos and thanks to her. And um all of our summer school

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programs are also um fully staffed. um their enrollment is not as what we thought for students to come to the program and we did extend it to a full day program because parents were saying how is it that I can bring my kids for the summer school four hours and you expect me to pick them up and I have to go to work and then find somewhere else

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for them to go. So we did make it a full day but even with that it's still the Roma is not where we needed to be to fully um to need more staff members. So there was adjustments made for that. Um then also we have had a request from our recreational program. Um they asked that

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we can have four classes um for their students to um report to for two weeks while they're getting the rec center um remodeled due to the fire. So I just want to make sure everyone just kind of think about that for I guess the next board meeting um because that's

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something they're asking and requesting for us to consider. >> Four. Yes. Um, we were looking to have it here at the middle school because they do use the the pool and other and it's not the elementary schools where they have a pro

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they already have a plan on how they're going to get all the schools cleaned and ready for the upcoming school year and some of the I know and I think this is going to be the it's going to be a great year this year for that for them to have it ready for the school year but this the only the high not excuse me the

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middle school is the only school that would not cause an issue with them being able to move forward with their project and plans. >> So you said the middle school or the high school? >> The middle school. >> Okay. >> In a separate wing. >> I want to go back to

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It was it's the mandatory summer school students first then anyone else that would like to come would get the seats and that's how we did it. Mandatory for like grades in attendance and then everyone else was allowed to to join in.

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Yes. So there's no waiting list because there's not even a lot of students that registered. >> Yes. So why students we we're fully stopped with that instead and parents have fully committed. >> Can we do one more robocall or something? >> Okay.

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>> And it's for all grades levels. >> All grade levels. >> Yes. Any questions about the curriculum and instruction? >> CNI. >> No. No. CNI. No questions.

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Going once, going twice. Okay. Finance. Finance. Yes. >> Um, we're going to do the presentations first for the um voters. Do you have the list for books?

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Okay. First, first we have Alamo. Is there a representative here for Alamo? >> Yeah. >> Alamo. Okay. >> Where where would you like down there? >> Um, no. You can write at the mic is

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great. Just speak in the mic. >> Good evening, Madame President. >> Good evening, >> school board. Lewis Alamo. delighted to be here with you tonight once again um to present our services to you as

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riskmanagement consultants. Um very familiar with the district um and would be delighted uh to rejoin you in your efforts to bring safety and risk management to the district. I introduce our senior vice

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president Samir Sarfraz for a few words. >> Thank you Lou. Good a good evening everybody. Uh, Madame President, uh, Superintendent, uh, Miss White, and all the respected board members. Uh, delighted to be back here, uh, to present,

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uh, uh, our our proposal to be a broker. It's kind of a home for me. Uh, when I started with New Jersey School Insurance Group about 20 years ago, uh, Pleasantville was one of my districts. I serviced the district for 15 years in the in the capacity of a loss control

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representative for New Jersey school insurance group. Then I joined the Alma Insurance Group and was served the district for another three years. So we we we are honored to be here and to get a chance to service the district again. Uh there's a number of things that we

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have done in the in the past for the district and if given the opportunity we will be doing it again. Um, notably, you know, some of the things that we have done, you know, putting on a safety committee at the district, which kind of benefited from New New Jersey school

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insurance group at that time because they have an safety grant that was coming in. Uh, we put out our institute and a vector solution online training program with the help of the district's administration and that was running at that at at at that time. Uh, we also did

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a behavior threat assessment team. We put a guidelines together. We did it from an underwriting standpoint. Um our VP of uh risk uh uh our VP of underwriting Jasmine Brascom she worked you know hand in hand uh as a due diligence getting all the codes getting

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the best possible numbers and we do not believe just become a broker we become a total sum organization we provide an erm which is an enterprise risk management work as a strategic partner for the district. So when we came on on board,

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what we did, we went through every single location, every single piece of equipment the district had. We remove a lot of deletion that could save the money to the district, put the money back to the classroom where it belongs to the kids. So I mean we we if given

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the opportunity we coming back to the same philosophy that we want to put the dollars back to the classroom where they could possibly save a job where they could provide more uh books uh some of the extracurricular

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activities to the kids and become a strategic partner. Do you want to add that was perfect and of course uh white glove concierge customer service. Um, we take a lot of pride in what we do and we we would uh be proud to rejoin you and

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your goals and your efforts. Any questions? Sorry, you said you um serviced us for 15 years with a different company. >> So I was on a carrier side. So uh school district has been insured with the New Jersey school insurance group uh for a

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while. So I was working for New Jersey school insurance group for se I I worked actually for for them for 17 plus years. So um South Jersey was you know my territory. So uh Pleasantville one of the few uh first school district that was assigned to me as a uh loss control

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rep and I serviced uh throughout you know different brokers that district had at that time three years ago when I joined Alam Insurance Group at the same time I mean the district was with the insurance group. So I I have worked in a capacity as a loss control rep and also as a broker for the district.

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>> Okay. All right. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> Just one last thing. I mean besides all these things, we have gone above and beyond. Uh the last time when we was here from underwriting standpoint, there were times when there were coverages was

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in question. We directly got into with the carriers. Not only we got the coverage but also got the council of the district's choice. So these are one of the notable things that we were able to do it at the district's behalf given the chance. Uh we look forward to do the same sort of service

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even go above and beyond. Uh like you know our fearless leader talked about it white glove concier service that's what we do >> and this is what you've done too in the >> we we have done a number of trainings I just put it in for your review that some

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of the trainings we have done for the district. I mean um >> it's starting from the bullying um you know working with the bus drivers uh doing a defensive driving classes not only doing the defensive driving classes but also did uh behavioral assessments

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with them I mean and what exactly we did you know sometimes the parents you know become irate the bus is running late why it's running late how to deal with them you know in a professional manner how to report everything back to the district if there is a bullying situation there's

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a harassment situation, something else is going on. uh we also did the training with your uh facilities department and Elmo is proud to be one of a very few brokerage uh in you know in in the state and in the industry who not only have

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in-house person who is an OSHA authorized trainer as well as uh you know uh nonviolent crisis intervention I mean district has a lot of I mean you probably have seen I mean from our history from the workers compensation special ed acting out and every school

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is dealing uh with them that a a lot of uh students are on the spect on on the IEP and they have a lot of issues um and how to deal with them. So I mean we have done the training and actually I mean we have a certified personnel on the staff.

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So your OSH OSHA compliance comes in or POS compliance comes in anything like that. Absolutely. Alamo does not have to go out and look for the resources. They have the resources within the organization. >> Thank you.

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Thank you very much. >> Okay. Well, thank you. Thank you for your service and bless you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you again. Thank you so much for your time. >> You're welcome. >> Thank you. >> Next we have Atlantic Associates.

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>> You said Atlantic. >> Yeah, Atlantic Associates. >> Good afternoon. >> Good afternoon. >> Good afternoon, >> Madame President. Roel, other board members >> and administration.

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My name is Lena Fulton. Joining me this afternoon is Stoell Fulton and we represent Atlantic Associates Insurance Agency. >> Good evening. >> Good evening. >> Good evening. >> Atlantic Associates, who we are, we were

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founded in 1979 by Lena Fulton. We have over four decades of proven experience in the insurance industry. We have provided property and casualty insurance brokerage services utilizing

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financially sound reputable insurance companies and joint insurance funds. After working with insurance agencies in the inner city, Mrs. Fulton saw the insurance needs of the community were

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not being met. and that birth Atlantic Associates. Our staff is comprised of some of the most capable, concerned, and courteous insurance professionals. Since inception, our primary gold has been to furnish comprehensive

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insurance programs for school districts. We approach a new account with a process we call the three Rs and the four C's. When we come in, we review, research, and recommend.

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We start with reviewing your carriers, the coverages you have, the claims under those coverages, and controlling the claims, and ultimately the cost. If you turn the page of the handout,

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we're going to tell you what we've done to date since we've come into the district. This is a scorecard issued by New Jersey Schools Insurance Group. And this is concerning the largest

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coverage, the workers comp coverage, which we were charged at the last presentation. What would we do? You see the 4-year workers compensation loss ratio since we've been here at the top is the

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2526. We have a few weeks left in this policy period. The current loss ratio is 48.92%. The prior year was 114.78%. The year before was 96.11% and prior 137.1%.

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If you go to the next page and you open it up, this was ran from New Jersey Schools Insurance Group today. This is the report issued today. If you go to the last two columns,

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this year is the final row at the bottom. The total incurred last year was two, pardon me, total incurred was 2 million

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2.8 million. The prior year 1.9 million. The prior year to that 1.9 million. In the prior year, two approximately two million. Again, last year was 2.8

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million. This year is 1.3 million, which is approximately 1.5 million less with just a few weeks left in the policy period. Total incurred. The total paid this year

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approximately is 46,000. The prior year was 175,000. Prior yearund 875,000. The prior year 858,000. 1.2 million. Prior 1.435.

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This was accomplished in a joint effort with the administration. The broker's job is in twofold. one brokerage duties marketing the program and two risk management which comes in with identifying the claims. We came and

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met with the administration. We saw the problem areas by the staff, the type of claims. Then we matched the trainings with the claims. For example, the nurses, the bus drivers, and we go out.

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Another example, if you go to the next page, posters we brought in at each location. You have a safety committee. of times a safety committee will meet and then the people go about their business of educating our

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children and running a staff. So what's the best way? Posters to give them daily reminders. It's akin to a driver's course. You get your license, you get your driver's license, then you go

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about. But what does the state do? They say we need to give you reminders and they have roadside signs. Slow down children area. Be careful. And that's what we've done.

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We put them in the four A's of fall prevention also in English and Spanish and the district put them in strategically placed locations. This brief presentation was just to accompany our proposal. But in

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conclusion, why Atlantic Associates? We have an excellent working relationship with the administration and departmental staff. The overall experience and longevity of our firm over 40 years in the business. Our staff's background is

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in public entity with the specialty in New Jersey school districts. Our overall experience with New Jersey school districts. We have an excellent relationship with New Jersey schools insurance group. We actually brought them to the district

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and work with the mayor markets. We have access to all the major markets. Atlantic Associates, we're here in Atlantic County. We participate in Pleasantville's community. We're governed by the district's objectives.

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No issue goes unresolved 24/7. We're accessible. I've worked with district by email at night even where they said you still up working. I said as long as you're working I'm working. We know the district and the district knows us.

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Thank you for the opportunity and for your time. >> Thank you. >> Any questions? >> Questions? >> Um yeah. >> Sorry. You said you you currently represent us, correct? >> That's correct. >> Um

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He was >> this will be your So you only completed one year with that. >> How was that one year? How well did you work with administration? Now you gave a brief point of that, but >> excellent work relationship. No issue

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goes unresolved and we look honored to continue. >> Okay. >> Very cooperative staff all around. >> All right. I thought I heard him say you said you work with the mayor of Pleasantville also. So you work with the city of Pleasantville too or No. >> Yes, we do.

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>> You do? Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. Thank you for that. >> You're welcome. >> Next we have corporate employee benefits. Who was that again? I'm sorry. >> And Treadstone, I'm sorry.

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>> Treadstone. >> They're together. Corporate employee benefits and Treadstone. They're together. >> Corporate employee and Treadstone. Good evening. >> Hello everyone. Hi, my name is Curtis Saklin, president of Corporate Employee

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Benefits located 700 North Main Street, Pleasantville. I'm a resident of Atlantic City and I've been a resident of Pleasantville before that. I'm here with Giovani who's with the Treadstone specializing in risk management. I decided that I was going to partner up

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with his firm because of their experience and training and background in this particular area for urban scourge urban school districts. I specialize in the health insurance side of it, but we also have licensed property and casualty brokers, my two

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daughters and my assistant. So my familiarity with Pleasville is very extensive and we can assure you that the servicing is to the point where we opened up an office here in Pleasantville so that we

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can be available to your staff and to you guys whenever necessary. Uh, I've been in business for 42 years and I've been in the area longer than that because I went to Stiger State College and uh, I love the South Jersey. So, I

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stayed here. I'm going let Giovani, Mr. Giovani, do the presentation because this is something that uh, he could enlighten you with on the areas of concern and also areas of servicing that we can help you with. Thank you. >> Thank you.

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>> Good evening board. Thank you again for the opportunity. I'm Giovanni Mancini from Treadstone Risk Management and I was here actually a year ago when you you had interviews as well. So again, thank you for the opportunity. >> Uh I've been doing this now since I got out of college since 2010. So we're at

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about 16 years now and it's been exclusively in the New Jersey public sector, mainly school districts. And if you look down to 35 or so some odd public sector clients that Treadstone represents, you'll see it kind of stops at around Ocean County. And the reason is I live in Morris County and it's a

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long drive. >> So part of this partnership was conversation I've had with Curtis over the years that I would love to get down there more often, but I'd have to hire more people. And to be honest, I've kept myself busy by bringing on new districts every single year. It just isn't at the

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top of my list. So this conversation we started to have was all right, I don't want to com create my own competitor, but I do want to teach other people how to do this. I was taught by my boss. It took me six years to really get a grasp of everything that was going on in

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specifically for public schools and I want to do the same for somebody else and it's in this instance it allows me to benefit in the having the the local presence while also being able to teach someone how to do this. So what I will say to the board is I think you have good representation now. I I think both

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brokers that spoke are excellent. I want to talk to you about what I think could benefit the district. And if we look at, you know, the ability to manage the claims, we still have to focus on managing the premium. When I spoke last year, I talked about the 10-year look back, what the insurance costs were then

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in 1617. And again, I'm just going off your annual comprehensive financial report that's on the internet. It was about $1.6 million. That number as of the 24 as of the June 2025 act for was over $3 million. Premiums have more than

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doubled since that period of time. And it's not just Pleasantville. It has went on in other places throughout the state. But there are ways to rapidly lower the exposure and the claims frequency that exists here. And one of them is buying

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in a bit to the new artificial intelligence wave that goes on. Now, there is a few school districts are very and particularly police departments that have done this. Your existing CCTV camera structure is probably fairly extensive. You probably have, you know, tens if not hundreds of cameras

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throughout all of the district. You do not need to make any hardware change, but you could purchase software that exists currently that will identify and notify various departments that exist inside of the district of certain instances that you're looking to find.

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Let's say you wanted to notify every time water that was on the floor was in in reach of a camera. You could get the buildings and grounds department notified of that immediately before a slip and fall happens. Let's say a slip and fall occurs and nobody was at nobody was notified of it. Anytime a slip and

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fall would occur within that camera frame, it would take a one or two minute video and then give it to whoever was sent on that notification. You could find workers that are in a construction area without a hard hat. You could have people using a cell phone while they're driving, but the proactive encouragement

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I give here is that to go back and look through all of your camera footage for every slip and fall that occurs would take a full staff. And it's always reactive. But what you could do now, and and when I say the cost of it, I don't find it to be incredibly cost prohibitive. The

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numbers vary between about $200 to $500 per camera per year. So you have 100 cameras talking between 20 and 50,000 on a insurance budget of over $3 million. It's something I would encourage the insurance carrier to pick up as a cost as a way to mitigate uh your future

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claims. >> And even if you didn't listen to anything I was saying right now, I think in the next three years, every district has this anyway. My goal is is to just give you a head start on it and get it while the price is probably a little bit lower than I think it should be. I have no affiliation with any of the

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companies. I don't take any compensation from them. I'm just enamaged with the product itself so far and I tried to tell everybody about it. The most impressive part about it was how it got to me. The software itself was originally pitched as idea to prevent active shooters. It claimed to be able

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to show and alert a firearm underneath someone's clothing. Uh, and when I heard about it, I said it's excellent, but thankfully in New Jersey it's not as frequent as maybe other places in the country. But what is is the amount of slip and falls that we have here,

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particularly ones that are harmful to the district's financial position. What I mean by that is security camera footage is typically kept for about 30 days at a district. After that, it's gone. But you have a 90-day window where somebody can slip and fall and bring about a tort notice against your

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district. So, there are plenty of people that are interested in self-enrichment financially that will magically report their tort notice after 30 days, knowing that that alleged slip and fall isn't probably on footage anymore. In this instance, I don't have to pay a full

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staff to watch this. I can have every slip and fall that occurs inside of the footage sent to people in the department that should be looking at it. It might be a risk manager. might be somebody in-house in the business office, but somebody's there to review it, curate, catalog it, and then if nothing ever comes from it, at the minimum, we could

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ask somebody if they're doing all right. But at the best case scenario, we're able to potentially prevent a claim by having footage that we normally would have gotten rid of without knowing the claim was coming. So, there is a thought that I I will offer. The dollars that we

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spend are increasing at a rapid amount. My concern isn't so much with how that is happening, but really where can we better spend that money. And what I mean by that is really moving it around. Are we taking on lower than necessary deductibles in areas where we don't have

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a lot of frequency that's particularly expensive where we could potentially purchase coverage elsewhere that is cheaper and no added in cost to the district, but a better deployment of the dollars we already spend. The ideas that I have, they're not, you know, you know,

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just my own. There are ones that I hear about because this is what I spend every minute of my working day doing. The New Jersey public sector insurance. I can assure you it's largely boring, but there are moments like what I talked about with the artificial intelligence part where something exciting is

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available and I'd like to tell everybody about it. Uh, our growth as a company speaks for itself. There's 35 districts now. 35 districts and municipalities and housing authorities. There were zero when I started the company myself 10

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years ago. Uh and every year we pick up more than than leave. So I I encourage you call the the references and I guess they would probably give a better commercial than I could on that part. But uh again, thank you for your time and if we have any questions, please.

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>> Thank you. >> I have a question. How will you save us money? >> How can I save money? >> Yeah. How can you save the district money? >> You're in a very tough spot this year to save any money if I'm being completely honest. So, it's 69 right now. 610's tomorrow without knowing whether or not

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you're in the last year of a three-year commitment to the fund. If you are, maybe, but more than likely, the renewal quotes are probably already out. Uh, and the odds that an insurance company changes the renewal quote when a new broker comes on slim to none. They really shouldn't. Uh the easiest way to

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do so is to focus on next year's money. The money that's earmarked currently is unlikely to budge within an amount that you would be impressed by. Uh there might be some parts of things that could be cleaned up like statement of values. You could review some of the current open losses that we have to see if they

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need to be revised down which maybe have an effect on your workers comp modification. But largely what we're talking about is decreasing the level of claims activity we have because you have to remember even if 48% was the the loss ratio for the current year that's on a number that's more than doubled in the

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last 10 years. So while it is impressive to see the decrease it's still a very large amount of loss activity that occurs. It's just we have a very inflated premium here now at this point. So I think your your earliest goal of hope to potentially save any money is to focus on where all the dollars get spent

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currently, identify which one of them can be moved to more to better places honestly where we have either lower frequency or lower severity and then ideally getting a hold on where our most frequent claims are. I would encourage

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you to to take a look at the artificial intelligence technology that exists because at the minimum it acts as an incredible deterrent and in most cases we're able to provide to our insurance company defense attorney access to camera footage that we might not have had it been erased after the 30-day

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period. >> I have a question. >> Sure. >> Do you guys service any other districts in area >> in this area? The furthest I I go down south currently is I believe it's Mammoth County. It's Asbury Park. Uh it's next to the city. Um

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and Willing Mural Board of Education in >> Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> That's it. >> Yeah. If if I may, um for the board, uh we do

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have an a a litigation update from one of our insurance council um for executive session. It would be a brief exec for for that update. Um my understanding is there there is nothing

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more on this agenda. >> No we have to do finance and personnel. >> Okay. So after finance and personnel presentations you mean or >> agenda as a whole. >> Committee as a whole. Right. >> We didn't even do personel or finance

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yet. >> Okay. Um and then we would have public comment after that. And then >> we're going to do >> Hold on. Attorney, what's your name again? I keep >> I keep forget

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>> Phil Stern, Taylor Law Group, partner of Lester Taylor. >> Great. >> I just didn't know your name. >> Very happy to be here. >> Okay, Phil. >> Uh, agenda items only. First, we have Miss Kathy Watson, the PA president.

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Come on over. >> Miss Watson, before you start, I just want to say thank you. Um, I appreciate your transparency. I appreciate you going above and beyond for the employees in the district. I appreciate everything

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you do, no matter what daggers are thrown at you. And I just want to tell you publicly that I appreciate you. >> Thank you. >> Make me cry. >> So, I'm going ahead and talking about the agenda. No.

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Okay. I I can't hear you guys. So what's happening? >> So because the agenda went out so late, the the uh I mean this public comment is for

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>> Oh, it's public comment. I thought it was agenda items. >> No, no, no, no. Just general public comment. The agenda is going to be formally dealt with next Tuesday, the 16th. It's at the 6:30 regular meeting.

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>> Okay. Um, so there's a lot of people here. Thank you very much for the explanation. There's a lot of people here because we re I wanted you to see that we have supports, not just me up here talking all the time. I do all these surveys and I ask, you know, and I

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for the one survey that I got, I had uh like 300, I think it was 300 people answered and 80% of them said that they wanted a superintendent from Pleasantville, homegrown superintendent. Um,

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and not somebody from out from, you know, out of district and not certainly not somebody that we uh had before. Um, and I have this I guess I have it on my phone. Um, so

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the definition of insanity according to Einstein is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. So we keep getting people from outside and it doesn't work and

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it's not going to work. are the uh already the morale is in the toilet. It's really bad. It was 30% last year. 30% of the people were happy because I did another survey. I got NJA or NEA to to pay for that survey. It was a very

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in-depth survey and um 30% of the people said they were happy and that means 70% were not happy and that was last year before we just non-renewed a whole bunch of people. So, I mean, we really got to do something. I keep trying to talk to Miss

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um Dr. Hyman Medley and I keep having conversation like I would really like to have some kind of like a heart-to-heart with the whole staff, all the staff before the school ends because I'm hearing rumors of people jumping ship still because they're like, "Oh no, I don't know what's going on." Especially

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the new people. And we need the new people because us old people are going to be leaving soon and they know how to use the computers better than we do. Um so yeah please we really want somebody from that's homegrown from here from us

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that's us knows us will keep you know just hit the ground running and not come in and start moving like the last time two years in a row we had to the high school and the middle school had to move their classrooms

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80% of the high school and teachers and 80% of the middle school teachers had to move their classrooms two days before school started. Now, how am I supposed to be getting ready to receive my children when I have to go pick all my

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stuff up and move it upstairs by myself? That's, you know, like there's a morale right there, too. Like, we don't want all this change. It's too much. We can't do it. The kids can't do it. Go ahead.

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>> Why were your classrooms moved? Pardon? >> Oh, I can't answer that. Oh, sorry. >> Why were we asked to move? I don't know. We were just told move. We were told you you're moving across the hall. You're moving across the hall.

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I don't know. It didn't make any sense. We were told, yeah, we're employees. We do what we're told. Yeah. two days before school started twice, two years in a row, 80% of the teachers.

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And then the then the kids didn't have any um um schedules. There was like no schedules for the kids. It was just been ridiculous, you know. So, please, we need somebody who can just jump in and know what's

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happening. know the district, know the teachers, know the kids, and know what's happening. We don't need we don't need to go through this honeymoon process again or honeymoon time, you know, like we need someone to get down and get dirty with us, you know, >> and that's why I brought some people.

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>> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Watson. Next, we have George Murray. Yes, George Murray. >> Thank you board for taking our comments. Yes, I know it's a regular meeting.

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Um, so I started in in this district in 1998 when this building was brand new and there have been about 19 superintendent over that time. I did the math. That's an average of every 1.4 years we're

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getting a new superintendent. Leadership sets the course for the entire organization. With 19 superintendents over the last 27 years, our overall course has been ruerless.

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We need a superintendent who is deeply invested in this district. Someone who knows the district intimately because they have worked in the buildings. They've worked with the students, with the teachers, and all of

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the staff. We need someone who's going to stay. someone who's going to be respected and just be able to work with all of the employees, all of the students,

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and we just we really desperately need that. We've got people who are opportunity is right in front of us. We've got people here who are from the district. We've got someone who's we got a couple

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I understand who are not from the district and one who did not fare well with uh with the staff did not you know was not really looked on favorably when she was here. We need someone homegrown.

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Thank you. >> Thank you. Next we have Terry. Terry. >> Good evening, board. First, I want Oh, sorry. I'm from Leeds Avenue School. Um, hi. I just first want to thank all

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of you for your volunteerism because I've sat in the same position that you're in in another school district and I know it can be a thankless job. So, I want to first of all thank all of you for being here and for supporting us. And I understand since I sat in your

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position somewhere else that your one employee that you hire is the superintendent and that is the single most important person that you will ever ever hire because he or she will have the ability to mold this district. So, a little bit

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about myself. I this is the end of my 20th year in Pleasantville. I have a vested interest in this school district. I'm now teaching Oh, this is so embarrassing. But I'm now teaching children of former students. So,

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just like myself, I have a vested interest in this school district and your children and your community. Even though I don't live in Pleasantville, I live in Egg Harbor Township, but this is still my community. I've grown up here my entire life. I've never moved out of South Jersey. I have an interest here.

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And we want somebody leading us that also has an interest here, that has been here, that knows our our students, that knows their parents, that cares about us, and that cares about what is going to happen in the next 5, 10, 20 years.

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Not somebody from an hour away that could care less in three years when their contract is over. Um, uh, so many people in this room go above and beyond every single day. So, I care

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about everyone in this district. I care about the people at my co-workers that I work with. I care about the children. I care about everyone. But I hope that you guys listen to us. And please, please bring in somebody, have somebody lead us

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that we know that cares about us and that cares about the children here. Thank you. >> Thank you. With this exception of legal Are there any questions on the bill list? Okay.

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See, that's what I'm using. >> Hoover the buses. It was like um >> Oh. Uh >> well, Hoover, Hoover, it was a big amount. >> Yeah. >> Can I say >> that was the purchase the pay for the four buses that we purchased? >> Okay. That was the four buses we

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purchased. God damn. >> Um >> um >> yeah, Hoover Hoover Truck Center. >> Yeah. Um I don't want to mention the name, but you know the child that gets transported back or whatever. Now, is there a

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criteria on how long like he we like he presents it? Is it like monthly we pay him? >> Is that the parent contract? >> Yes, that's annually. That's from September through June. 24,200 that parent receives for transporting their

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student. >> I know, but like there's one for like November 2025. >> Like how long do you got to submit or it doesn't matter? >> Well, he submits we receive the attendance and we pay once we receive the attendance of the students. So once we get the attendance,

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we pay each month. >> Got it. Got one more thing. Well, no, I have a few things. Sorry. Egg Harbor Township Police Department. Is that the day they came here? Did the board meeting? >> No, that actually is for the early

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childhood um program. They went on four trips at the A Harbor Township Recreation Center. It was about $1,000 a trip. Well, not $1,000 a trip. It was like 70 85 students and it was like $1,000 for each trip that they did. It

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was for early childhood. >> We paid them because was it other districts there? bike. >> No, it's uh STEM project. I mean STEM activities. It was actually a field trip for the early childhood program. We can get more. I can get more information. >> No, it's fine. It's fine. I was just

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>> um Garrett Electronics. Is this security equipment? Are we purchasing this or we renting it for 13,000? >> That is for um that was payment for metal detectors. >> Metal detectors. There were new metal

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detectors that we purchased. >> And Georgia Golf Construction, is that the turf? >> I thought we paid that. >> No. Uh Georgia Golf is the um company that does the landscaping and they have

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done stuff with the fields, the baseball fields. Actually, um they're like a landscaping company as well. They do the fields. Yeah. Do we use like a different landscaper for like each? >> No. Well, we don't. Well, landscaping.

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Georgia Golf is the company we're using for that, but we were using Mission Landscaping for like the flowers at the schools last year. >> I'm learning. You getting me? I'm learning. >> And then

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the Green Guys recycling solution. That's on page uh nine. Now, how often because I Googled them and I noticed they recycle stuff, >> but like don't ACUA recycle or they doing some different. >> Green guys is our trash. They do the

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trash. They come three times a week. >> Oh, we don't use like ACUA and nothing. >> ACUA is for recycling, but Green Guys is our trash vendor that comes. >> So, one month they got 20 >> and Yeah. And this is the third year of this

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contract. We went out to bid two years ago and this is the third year of the trash contract. >> So they do all schools at all properties. >> All schools at our property. And in the summertime it's reduced. I think it's two days a week. I have to check. But it's reduced in the summertime.

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>> Okay. And they do recycle and trash. >> Yes, they Yeah, they do recycle and trash. Yes. >> Okay. And here I go again. I googled this hot Hailard Inc. about these cleaning supplies for 9,000. I mean, we can go to

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Dollar Tree and get the same thing. Same exact stuff. >> I didn't hear what was it? >> It's Hillyard. It's still We still on page nine. >> Oh, yeah. Hillyard is like cleaning supplies um for the district like cleaning supplies. >> I know 9,000 we could be a dollar tree.

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>> They got all that stuff. >> I got to look into like >> we can >> I don't know. We got to talk to the maintenance and see if they like this cleaning stuff. Man, that's a lot of money. >> Yeah, we can go out to bid for um you know for cleaning supplies. They just

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have to you know >> I mean like is that monthly, yearly, quarterly? >> Yeah, of course you have to have certain >> Yeah, I know you guys have stuff, right? Okay. >> And is that my last one? >> Well, do you guys use the state website

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like the state vendors? Yeah, we we do state contract >> because some of them offer discounts too if you buy it in bulk, >> right? We use state contract vendors as well. >> I'm sorry, I'm not done.

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>> Oh, go to page 19 for me. >> We could possibly get the ISA algorithm you can get and add to your software that checks all the prices nationwide and compares them, gives you the best price before you order. I think Dollar Tree do it. >> Um 19 perfectly clean. Now I see there

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special cleaning but then we paying them 15,000. I mean how I'm sorry like I sit down with like this book and I just go through and I'm just trying to understand. They like special cleaning. They do like a little steam. I know.

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>> No, they call perfectly clean. >> This is perfectly clean. That's the uh vendor that we use to clean the kitchens. >> Yeah. Clean that. Clean that. >> We don't have nail bud any longer. >> We use nail. Okay. Nail bud is for the drains. >> Drains. The drains. Yes.

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>> All right. Yeah. No. No. I'm mind business. A kitchen. >> Sorry y'all. >> Armor truck. >> We got >> Oh, I'm sorry. I know. always miss hair. I'mma fix it next month. Go >> ahead. >> All right. And then I want to know about

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us replenishing the athletic account. So when how does that go about? So we we use up all we got and then we we use up everything that's in that account and then so do we have to take it from somewhere else like uh personnel or is that just leftover

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money somewhere? Like how do we >> the replenishment amount for the athletics? That's to pay the officials. Uh, Mr. Zacharias, they have his athletic account and then when the officials account go low, we have to replenish it so he can pay the athletic

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officials out of our student activity account. >> Oh, okay. This is Oh god, this is stuff is interesting, y'all. I don't need to ask about that cuz I Googled that and I found this. And I think that's it, y'all. I'm sorry.

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>> Yeah, that's all for me. Yes. >> Anybody else have any other question? >> I have a question. I don't have my agenda with me since I'm my truck, but I had a question pertaining to why are we playing the armor the armor truck people to come when our previous

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employee, Mr. Jones, used to carry everything out by itself. So why are we paying all this money for armor truck? The the armor, they come and pick up the money from the schools. So they come pick up the cash and take it to the bank

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because we didn't want an employee. He had taking cash going to the bank. >> Previously, previously before this happened, who was doing it? >> Uh Brendan, like Brendan was our one of the accountants in the business office. >> So why it changed again? >> Because it wasn't safe like most

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districts. >> Did we have a problem with them doing it before? >> Well, because it's not safe for them. >> I'm just asking a question. Did we have a problem with them taking with our staff handling the money before?

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>> What did we have a problem before that made y'all want the armored people? >> Well, we did the armor because it was best for security for the safety of >> I hear you, but you're not answering my question. >> My question is did we have a problem

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before? Even though I say hear you saying that now this is good with the safety that How long have we had this armor? Number one, >> it's about two years. >> Okay. So, previous before this two years, >> we've been having an employee that was doing it,

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>> right? >> Did something happened to anyone that made them? No, nothing happened to them. >> I was going to say I remember before this happened, there was some situations where if someone was out >> or did not feel if something happened, they didn't feel well and they were not

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there and we did not deposited within the time frame we were held liable. We can get in trouble for that. >> How long ago was that? >> That was right before we got the armor people >> because you cannot this happened within the last two years. >> No, because we had the service. >> We had the service this last two years.

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So a question if is it a fee yes to do it well okay I know it's a fee but is there a fee to do it maybe once a week because how much money are we collecting that's that we need two or three times a week >> the law once we get money in we cannot hold it in our buildings

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>> that's the law >> and they come two two times a week to deposit money >> within 48 hours >> to make sure we don't violate that law before we had. So before these last two years, we had

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staff that was doing it that was saving the district money. Now that we have the armor coming is charging us that could have possibly kept some jobs. >> I have a question. >> Can you let her answer that? >> We had to do what was best for the interest of the staff members and them

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transporting money was not a good practice. >> And how long was we doing that again? >> They was doing it for years. >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah. I have a question. Can you give me an estimate of the amount of money that they may be going to the trucks? Can y'all give us an

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estimate? >> Like is it more than 5,000? >> Oh yeah, it varies because the student activities like when the schools raise money for different activities, >> they that money has to be deposited. They have, you know, student activities, they have fundraisers, donations, and things like that. So it varies per

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school. >> So for safety reasons, we're using the armor truck, >> right? >> Because and insurance. It's insured once it goes to right. It It makes logical sense that anybody with a uh anything past a certain amount of money would use an armored truck.

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>> Yeah. I just wanted to ask >> It's not safe for me to be carrying a bag full of money. >> It is a liability. They feel >> But if it was 200, could you stop that truck that day? >> They felt unsafe. >> Yeah. >> If it was 200 that day, could you stop it? >> I'm sorry. What' you say? >> Like if it was a low amount that day,

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could you stop that truck or That's just It doesn't matter. We gonna get that fee because I think she's worried about the money that we spending now >> to be like to be saving. >> That's right. I was trying to find out that we used to have >> Is it ever amount under like 5,000?

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>> Well, on a day it could be, but like for the most part when they're raising funds for their activities, it could be three $4,000. >> They come they come twice a week. >> They come twice a week. >> Okay. >> And we let them know too because sometimes I remember when we were at North Main Street School, we would tell them we we don't have anything. you

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don't need to come out. >> You don't get charged. So, >> that was one of the questions. And my other question pertaining to that was um do I director of security

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is licensed to carry? Wouldn't they be able to transport the money? Oh, you mean could he go to the bank and deposit the money >> if he's licensed to carry for safety reasons? >> Well, he could, but that would be a busy

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part for him every time someone, you know, has cash like >> But wouldn't that But wouldn't that save the district some money? >> No, because then you'll have to pay him out of title pay because he's doing another job. >> It still would be cheaper than the armor truck. >> But then if >> that's just a question is the question

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we haven't committed anything. >> I know. But if you lose the money, then the money insured. >> Exactly. >> The armor truck once they sign off on the money, it's insured. >> We going to get the money back. It's like a credit card. You know, somebody do fraud, they going to send you that. >> Okay, we going to leave that alone.

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>> The only question I have on this is not about the transporting is in the summertime because it's not shouldn't be a lot of money collected like during July and August. So, do we cut back? Is that a savings? It's a 10-month contract, so they don't do it in the summertime because there's no

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fundraising because it's just summer school, >> right? >> And if we don't have funds, then it's cancelled. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> See, I'm glad I asked that question because it wasn't clear. >> Yeah. >> We do have the solar panel, gentlemen,

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here. I know some board members had questions about it before we go into executive. You don't have a Yeah. you can go. >> Madam President, can you start the solar question?

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>> Okay. A lot of questions for y'all. >> I mean, I need a sandwich. Okay. Good evening. >> Good evening. >> Good evening. >> How are you? >> Good. >> Good. Good. Well, uh, happy to be here.

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We're, uh, with M&A Energy. Uh, we were previously supposed to be, uh, in person back in May. Um, but due to some scheduling conflicts, um, we were unable to attend. But, you know, our job here, um, is to talk about the solar array, uh, out behind the high school and the middle school. Um, so, my name is Tyler Anthony. You know, it's a pleasure to

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be, uh, working with you here today. the esteemed members of the board and in the community. I have two colleagues of mine um Sean Akamalo and Tommy Royale uh here with me to kind of go over uh the presentation we have prepared. We've sent it over uh to Dale. Um we weren't sure if we could use the technology, but in light of that um you know we we can

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have that we can be sure to have that socialized with uh with members of the board. Um so what we want to do is kind of go through a little bit of history. Uh as we understand um I believe none of you were around when this contract was signed back um about 15 years ago. And so we want to kind of give you a little bit of background to who we are about

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the project and kind of next steps that we're looking at um with the solar array. So um >> oh yeah perfect. So it's going to get us displayed here in a second. Thank you for your patience. I appreciate it.

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>> Yeah. Um let me go. Uh my name is Tyler Anthony and this is Sean Akamala and this is Tommy Royel. You're welcome. And I have all of our contact information in the uh in the presentation for you as well.

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>> Got it. That's fine. Thank you. Okay, perfect. All right, wonderful. So, introduction to Emanate. So, M&A's been around for about eight years. Um, we're a developer, owner, and operator of solar and battery storage resources throughout North America. Uh, as you'll see, we

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have about 874 projects across 29 states. some of the largest states that we have assets in, uh, New Jersey is the largest one that we have a vested interest in. Uh, California and numerous other states throughout the country. We're headquartered in New York City, so Sean, Tommy, and I made the trek down

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this evening uh to come visit with you and have this conversation. So, again, we appreciate your time uh and and we have a vested interest in this community um both near and far. And so, what what we provide is the solar array that sits out behind the middle school and high school. It's not

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on school property. uh it's been in service for 15 years. We're going to go through a little bit of what we provide, what the system provides, and some of the uh salient uh pieces of information that are tied to that system. So, this contract is coming up for renewal. It uh provides school provides the school

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savings on its electricity bills. We want to continue that relationship. >> Correct. >> Correct. We lease it from another um owner of the land. The power electrically connects

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through the school um to the system. >> Correct. The electrons yes offset your electricity costs. Uh my colleagues will walk through nice succinct uh view of that for you. Um kind of put it put it all together. Um so not only we don't just own the assets, we develop own and operate them. We have in-house project

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development, construction, we do the asset management, L&M, so ensuring that the system operates reliably. And then we have our commodity management, which we're here to talk about today. So what you guys have is called a power purchase agreement. I'm going to hand it over to my colleague Sean here to kind

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of go through what that is and what that means and what those are, what option you have, um, and what that and benefits that yields to the school district and the community. Good evening everyone. So, we have a couple different options on your uh power purchase agreement that we can

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offer, right? We have our off-site VPPA. Those are for more our utility scale. Offtaker is usually, you know, utility grids, things like that. But where you guys fall in is our on-site PPA. So, that's generally our smaller sites between 1 to 20 megawws, you know, quite

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intensive in the uh initial phasing of the project. But, as we know, we're coming on this renewal. not much is needed from your side or really our side is just kind of working out the the uh renewal terms for as we come up to that.

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So, so what is a power purchase agreement? So if you can see through that illustration there, our solar project generates electricity. That electricity then gets delivered to the local grid and then the utility delivers that power to the school or for everyday use and

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then the school gets essentially offseted by that on their utility bill from the power that's generated by the solar asset essentially driving down your uh price that you're essentially paying. So some history on your on your system here at the school. So, uh, it fully

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came online in March 2012 with both, uh, arrays coming online, both the high school and, uh, middle school arrays fully. Uh, Emin Energy acquired the project from its previous owner in 2020. And, you know, we've been running it now for 5 years. Uh, if you look to the

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right there, you'll see the average uh, production that we've had since we've taken ownership. We had a slight decrease in 2024, but as we've in-houseed the uh operations and management of the solar array in 2025, we've seen that come back up and we

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anticipate that to continue to uh produce at a uh high performance and availability for the school. The current pricing on this uh PPA is $112. You'll see that compared to what the utility rate is and where your savings come in

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uh upcoming slide here shortly. And as we said earlier, we are coming up to the expiration of the PPA that we're looking at in March 2027. And again, it's for a a smaller on-site uh project at 4.1 megawws.

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So, some project savings and benefits for the site. So, as I said earlier, the year, uh PPA rate right now is at 112 megawatts versus the utility rate that's closer to 140. We saved the school district about $96,000 last year by providing the electricity that we did.

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And as we kind of see those numbers go up in future years with utility rates rising higher than what we guarantee in our PPA rate, you'll see those savings grow even larger as we go more into the future. So, as we look towards, you know, signing a renewal on this project,

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we hope to continue saying the uh school district additional that's yeah, we'll go into some uh you know, local state benefits as well. You know, if we'd think one, you know, as it saves a school energy, we also see it as ways that, you know, you guys can introduce this into your education

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curriculum and show uh, you know, the next generation of students as well, uh, different aspects of, you know, power generation as well as, you know, environmental aspects and how it's saving planet. And then I'll hand it off to Tommy here to talk about policy.

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>> Thank you, Sean. Um, board members, nice to be with you guys tonight. Thank you for having us. Tommy Roel on the government affairs team. And although I look like I could be one of your students, I'm not. Um, as I got a comment from someone before, I am not a Pleasantville student. I want to kind of

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focus on what Sean just said about how this project has performed over the last 15 years. We're seeing savings of $96,000 over the last 15 years. I'm not too good at math, but if you multiply that, that's almost $1.5 million in

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savings that this facility has generated for the school. And folks, that that's a lot of money that we can invest in our students going forward. This this facility is, you know, allowing us to uh to be more flexible and use those those savings that that we're saving on our energy bills.

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Now, like most of everyone here, I'm going to go home. I'm going to turn my AC on. and tomorrow I'm going to turn my AC on and watch the Knicks and I'm going to get my utility bill at the end of the month and it's going to be really expensive, right? The cost of power is incredibly expensive right now. The cost

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the cost to develop a project because of loss of tax credits, tariffs, labor costs is also much more expensive than it was 15 years ago. So basically, this seems like a no-brainer to extend the life of this

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project, right? These facilities usually last for about 30 years. This contract is for 15. So why wouldn't we extend it for another 15, right? Well, there's an issue. Right now, current statute does not allow this type of agreement to be

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extended past 15 years. So, at the end of 15 years, what we've seen with a lot of our school district partners, our our municipal partners, is you really have two options. one, you can decommission the site, or two, you can own and operate the site.

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Now, we don't want to decommission a site that's generating almost $100,000 of savings that has maybe 15 years more of useful life. And I like to use this analogy about owning and operating the site, right? You know, I'm not a mechanic. It would kind of say, hey, here's your car. You have to fix it and do everything yourself. You can't go to

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the mechanic anymore. It's out of warranty. It's all on you. Those two options are not attractive for public schools, our municipal partners, and quite frankly, from our experience, they don't want that. Thankfully, the legislature has

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introduced a piece of legislation to rectify this. And basically all this bill says is that a public's entity like a school or a municipality can extend these types of contracts for an additional 15 years aligning it with the

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life of a project. This is totally voluntary too, right? You know, we can sit here and say, hey, you know, I want to extend the project one year and I'm then I'm going to go out for bid and see maybe I'm going to get a cheaper project. Maybe I'll get cheaper power. You can do that or you can extend for 15 years, right?

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So this bill is voluntary and it would essentially provide that that tool that that added tool in the toolkit to to continue continue to manage these energy costs. So, you know, kind of for the reasons that I was saying before, you know, keeping a project that is

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operating perfectly, generating savings, we want to keep that online because right now the cost of doing business is very expensive. And we think that this legislation that has been introduced will solve that issue and allow Pleasantville to continue to operate

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this facility for up to 15 years. Um, with that I'm going to pass it back off and would be happy to take any questions uh from the board. >> I have a question. >> Me too. >> Um, when you guys did the original contract here, was it something

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stipulated in the contract that outhouse or fieldhouse was to be built? >> Be honest. >> So, we we were not the original developers and uh uh construction of this uh asset. This asset was purchased

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from Marina Energy from by us in 2020. So, >> we can definitely take that back internally and try to get a better answer for you so that way we can answer that. >> So, when you took over the project and brought it, did the original documents come with it? Like maybe you would have the original contracts. >> We we do have the original documents and

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we can definitely try to look through is that and see what we can find for you. >> Okay. Could you possibly forward them to us? >> Yes, we can. >> Appreciate it. Thank you. >> Because that's what I heard too. Uh, first question. If it's saving us 96,000, but we're giving you or the

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company back money, then we're not really saving that amount because we had you guys on our bill list numerous times for large amounts of money. >> So, that savings is towards what the alternative would be, which is purchasing it from the grid. So, if you were to go and purchase that from the

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utility yourself, you'd be paying that significantly higher price, which is that $140 I referenced earlier. So, why is it in the presentation? I thought I was saving. >> Oh, no. >> Oh, I can't see that. That far. That's small. >> I have a question. >> Hold on. Then I wanted to ask you, how many other districts are you serving?

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>> So, we serve about 95 other uh schools in the area. >> You said 95. >> Yeah. So, we right now have 90 operating projects with public partners and a lot of them uh consist of schools and municipalities. I can get you the exact number. I don't know off the top of my head because there's many school

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districts that we serve and work with. >> Okay, that's what we want to know as far as the school districts. But I have a question in your presentation and as y'all speak and y'all saying um the 15 years that you've been here and the amount of money

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from 15 years, break down the last five years. How much did we save from five years? Because 15 years ago, like you stated, we weren't sitting here. So everything has changed 15 years to now shuck. Stuff's changed last week's look

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at the gas prices, but give us something pertaining to the last five years to present. >> Yeah, we we can definitely get you those numbers. Like we said, we have the 95 the 94,000 from last year that we saved if you were to alternatively purchase

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the electricity straight from the grid. But again, we can get you the last 5 years numbers as well as projections that we could see for the next couple years as well. >> Okay. Cuz 15 years to last year and that big gap, we need to know what's really >> break this down to you. You said that's not our property.

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>> Correct. >> So you rent that, >> correct? >> So then from you renting that property, you're running it through us or >> So we deliver the power to the grid and then that the electrons that we deliver to the grid get offset on your utility bill, but then you would pay us the That

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doesn't sound I I ain't that >> I have a question. >> This is like sending a woman to a car dealership. >> I'll tell her >> and you selling me a limit. Like >> it's okay. >> I need just a little more. >> Yeah. I'll Can I get her a little more real quick? Yes. I I'll make sure to get

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to you. I promise. Um so imagine if your schools consumed uh let's just look at an example here. >> If if the school let's just use round numbers. The school consumed 10 watts of power, right? um without the solar system, that's what

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you pay Atlantic City Electric. Our system generates seven watts, right? So now what you're going to pay on your bill is seven watts to us, Atlantic City Electric has our system consumption matched to your bill. So instead of

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seeing 10 on your bill from Atlantic City Electric, you would only see three and seven would get invoiced from us. And then the three gets invoiced from Atlantic City Electric. >> Okay. >> I have a question. >> Who who owns the solar panels during and

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after the agreement? >> During the agreement, we do >> and after >> after the agreement, it's nuanced to a bit, not the school. Um there's a lot of language within the offtake agreement and the land lease agreement uh with the site host. Um so yeah.

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>> And who owns the renewable energy credits? >> Uh we do. Do we have a power bank? >> Like a battery? >> Yes. >> No. >> How often will performance be monitored and reported? >> It's monitored and reported every single

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day. >> Okay. >> We have a team of asset managers, 50 asset managers that monitor all of our projects across the country. >> And what is the worst case scenario, >> financial scenario for the district under the agreement? Yes, ma'am. >> And where is that addressed in this

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contract? >> Yes. So, the worst case scenario for the district is that we don't renew this agreement with you. We don't reach a mutually agreeable outcome. Um, and then the contract expires and then you're now

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paying the utility alternative rate. Um, if we do agree to extend it, um, we would certainly work on negotiating a new rate, right? That's a back and forth dialogue. >> And why do you guys own the renewable credits? Because when the contract was

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initially uh uh created or crafted, the renewable energy credits were exorbitantly expensive, cost prohibitive to bundle within this contract. Uh more expensive than the power itself actually. >> Um and so we do have options where we can get the school credits that match

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the consumption, but they wouldn't be New Jersey specific credits, but they would be cheaper credits that you can match to your consumption. >> Okay. and what assumptions were used for the future rates and what happens if the perfection savings credit isn't achieved.

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>> Yeah. So, uh for the future we would need to have like a back and forth dialogue, right? So, what what we would do is we would put our team would put together a package of a a renewal offer um proposing either a five, 10 or 15 year option based on the system life

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which as Tommy and Sean said, you know, they're about 30 years about 15 years left on this. So, we'd include all the relevant information. We'd we'd show you um roughly what we would propose and we would have a back and forth on where we think that rate should land. Right?

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Typically, there's a savings uh these kind of contracts have savings below the market rate. And you can look at um there's other types of solar programs in the state of New Jersey where um you know customers can benefit they typically benefit from a percentage discount somewhere between 10 and 20%.

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From >> and if there's a gray area regarding who owns the solar panels that we've been paying for for 15 years. How do we address that moving forward? Are you guys giving us new solar panels for us to repay for to keep? >> So you don't actually pay for the

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panels. Um you just pay for the p the electricity off of those panels. So, no lease fee, >> no lease fee on the panels. The lease fee is actually paid by the land owner for us to site the panels there. At the end of the ground lease term, there's language therein that stipulates

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we have a an aspect called decommissioning, right? Say for example, you guys don't want to renew the project. At the end of the contract term, it's incumbent upon us to execute the requirements within that land lease agreement for decommission. Whether that's our firm or the land owner, every

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contract's different. So, we would honor those arrangements. >> When does the contract end? >> Uh, March of next year. >> March 2027. >> March 27th. >> Correct. >> Jesus Christ. >> I have a question. >> Do Do the rates stay the same no matter how much electricity is supplied?

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>> Yeah, that's a great question. Um, so on the energy supply side, your rate with us stays the same. Again, with a small asterisk on that, um, typically what you see in these types of agreements, and we're educating you, right? That's the goal of this conversation. Um, typically what you can see is, sorry, um, are

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escalator rates on that. So, usually from somewhere between 1 to 2%. So, if say your rates $100, which is 10 cents a kilowatt. So, what we pay at home, you know, we usually look in cents. um you would see that year-over-year increase. That would be part of the renewal

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process is kind of crafting that rate escalator. I believe this one's already on a 2% escalator from the time of um inception. >> I have another question. You said you saved us about 96,000 this year so far. >> By this year, do you mean from >> 2025 calendar year 2025?

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>> The whole year. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. So, if we're paying you about 50 somewhere between 40 to 60,000 a month, >> how is that a saving? And that's a cost of 500,000 a year. >> So on your utility bill, you'll have multiple components. You'll have the supply side, which is us, and it's a

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small line item. Then you also have your transmission and distribution charges, which is from Atlantic City Electric. That's we call that lines and wires. So to get the power >> throughout New Jersey, if you will, >> service to the poles and all that. >> Yes, ma'am. And so you would see that's typically the we call it TND

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transmission and distribution charges. They're the lion share of the bill. Typically, we do actually have copies of your bills. We're happy to, you know, put together a walkthrough of a bill. What line item is us and what kind of falls outside of us? >> Please, the supply and delivery. And when this original contract was

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generated, >> things have significantly changed from both the perspective of the usage as well as >> the years. So my question to you is is when you went back to the drawing board for the new contract or potentially the

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new contract, um did we look at the data that we have to make sure we had enough power banks that way we're paying less money to our supplier or I'm sorry, you know, them delivering to us. Pretty familiar with solar

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panels. Um >> did are we going to recalculate that? So in the renewal process, we can engage in those types of conversations. We'll look at the annual average production for the system, expected annual yield for the

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project from now through the end of life. And if there's any degradation, we can compare that to the school consumption. And then we can if that if there's a mean meaningful deviation. So in the earlier example, if that seven we provide now drops to four, you're now

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paying for the six from the utility. you know, that makes a meaningful difference exactly what you're getting at. We can look at uh what we call a recommissioning process and so we can consider what that cost would be that would certainly change the rate um and term, right? But we can certainly factor that in

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>> and if need be if another solar panel to needed to be set to generate more KW so that we're paying less to Atlantic City Electric to offset that expenditure that we are seeing. Is that eligible for you guys?

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>> That's possible. It's all part of the project economics. It's something we we will evaluate. We're land constrained there. So, we wouldn't be able to put more panels. So, if there are I'm going to make up numbers here. If there's a thousand panels there, we wouldn't be able to put 1500 panels there, right? It might be newer technology that'd be more

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efficient. These have been operating for 15 years. So, they they've degraded their production yield a bit. Um, but we that's it's an option to look at that we do. And if a building is this large, >> a building this large, >> would a power bank be um useful so that

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we can get the kickback? Because you from from the looks of or the sounds of things, you guys are keeping our rec credits. >> We don't have anything for our power to come back into us. The extra could >> these lights run at night as well, which

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would accumulate our ability to save and have a backup. So would a power bank benefit this district? >> Right. >> Uh I don't have numbers to say for certainty. Something we have to look at. >> Okay.

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>> Batteries and power banks become >> complex. But yes, I mean something we could look at, but I wouldn't be able to answer right now. Unfortunately, >> I appreciate your time. >> Yeah, of course. >> And please make sure I just have one more question. >> Go ahead. >> Go ahead. >> You had a question? No. I was just saying to him the police

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everything that they said that they was going to look into to make sure they give us the information that they receive from doing your homework. No, >> I just had one more question because uh the last few years, I'm sure you guys know it's programs where they'll supply

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like if you buy solar panels or and they'll supply a new roof for you. So, the school system is pretty old um pretty new but still pretty old with some damages. Do you guys have some kind of program that if we got more solar panels that you supply roofs first?

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>> So that really only applies when the solar installation is on top of the building where it impedes the ability of the roof to perform in its expected duration. >> Okay? >> So imagine if um we put that system on there 15 years ago, but your roof only had seven years left. we would work with

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you in a way to benefit everybody to ensure that roof gets replaced and the system is not impacted. Um, but those are usually embedded in the agreements at the onset language around roof repairs. But those are if they're installed on >> So in that case, could we possibly look

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into something like that because it's a new contract, so new agreement and you guys actually just took this on 2020, correct? >> We did take it on in 2020, correct? So, we could probably actually look into some type of agreement that would probably help us with roofing >> or no, >> I wouldn't say so because your system's not on there. We're not roofers,

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unfortunately. Um, if the system was on there, we had contractual language around that, we would it would be incumbent upon us to do that. I believe we'll double check this agreement to see if there's anything in there again with the the facility that you mentioned earlier, >> any roofing language, and then we can work on that. But typically, that language is in there when the system is on top of a building.

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>> Okay. All right. Thank you. >> One more one more question. when you board the company. So I know like normally when you sell something sometimes the contract goes null and void. How did we how did we how were we able to stay in this with you? >> You board it from

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>> Yeah, that's a fantastic question. Um so so the array is under its own LLC and then the contract with you is with the solar facilities LLC. So because fundamentally it was only an upstream ownership change um we just assume

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ownership of that LLC. So because your the Pleasantville school district's agreement is with the LLC of the solar facility >> that you now own >> that we now own. Correct. >> Is okay. Got it. >> Dispute this. >> Who owns the land? >> I don't know if we're allowed to

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disclose the land owner's name, but it's a local business. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> And the and and it's being leased. So, who's paying that lease? >> We are.

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>> You are. Okay. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> We do. We do. Yes. And email. I I think the one thing too, you know, I I appreciate all the the inquiry. Um I think the one thing that we'd like to coales around is a a direct point of

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contact. uh you know as we get closer um not only to the land lease uh expiration which is different than the um the offtake the arrangement we have the PPA as we call it um between us um we have to work expeditiously to ensure that we

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can preserve the rights to the land and the operation of the system for the school's benefit. So, if there's um a team or if it's all of you, fantastic. Um but if we had a direct point of contact that we can work on um and kind of to keep these conversations moving forward, I think that would be that

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would be greatly appreciated. >> Can they >> Yeah. I'm sorry. What did you say? >> I think we just wanted to make sure we establish the the individual or individuals that we would be working on the agreement with um and the plan, right? I mean you all have amazing questions and these are the exact

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questions you should be asking. So we we do appreciate that but we want to make sure we answer all of them direct to the right person that we can have proactive dialogue. Um given the land lease um expiration and needing of extension our first aspiration is you know to ascertain well firstly to work with you.

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Uh the second is to ascertain your interest and in extending the arrangement that we have with you and working collaboratively to do that. Um, so I think as long as we can have the right contacts and establish a medium of communication outside of these meetings, uh, I think

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would be would be great. >> Yes, that's fine. You could forward that information to me. Sean, you have my email. >> Perfect. Thank you, Dale. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Awesome. Thank you. If you have any question >> Yeah. No, take care, Dale. We uh send the presentation. All of our contact

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information is on the last slide, the email addresses. If you send it to us, one of the three of us will we'll get back to you as soon as possible. We'll follow up on all the deliverables. >> Awesome. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> We we're having trouble hearing you though, Mike. So,

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>> mainly as soon as possible, the answer to Mrs. Sanchez's question about the fieldhouse because we were told that was part >> of that deal >> a while ago. >> Love the telephone game. >> Okay. We we'll absolutely check on that and get back to you >> as soon as possible, please.

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>> Thank you very much. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. We appreciate your time. >> May I have a motion to go into executive session? Motion by Mrs. Morgan. May I have a second? >> Second by Miss Sanchez. The board is going into executive

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session to discuss litigation and uh under the attorney client privilege >> personnel. >> And personnel. >> Oh, and personnel. >> Oh, okay. And personnel as well. >> Do all in favor? >> All in favor?

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>> Are we coming back? >> Yeah. >> No. Are we coming back? >> Do we have to Oh Jesus. >> Yeah, we got the two attorneys here.

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Just What's that? >> Gentlemen, come on back. to come out of executive session. >> Motion by Mrs. um Harris, second by >> second

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>> Miss uh Silver. All in favor? >> Opposed? Okay, >> great. Um we got a motion to do go back to the committ No, we can't.

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>> He said he just said we put the motion on the committee as a whole. We have to reverse it that way. >> We can't darn it. We can't take no action >> next week. Okay. May I have a motion to adjourn this meeting? Motion >> second.

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>> All in favor? I >> oppose. Silver.